The top US telecom regulator proposed Wednesday to regulate broadband Internet service providers as “public utility” carriers, in a renewed effort to enforce “net neutrality” rules. Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler unveiled the plan which aims to prevent Internet providers from playing favorites or blocking some services or allowing others to pay for “fast…
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday launched e-registration of properties in all the 130 tehsil and sub-tehsils of the State to mark the completion of 100 days of his government. Declaring that he wanted to provide a corruption-free governance, Mr Khattar said already a CM window has been opened in every district headquarters…
As part of its e-governance initiatives, the Andhra Pradesh government would soon put in place an IT-enabled platform to make the entire system of payments and disbursements online. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, known for his IT-savvy ways, held a meeting with finance department officials on the plan to implement the Comprehensive Financial Management System…
Finding Flipkart’s ‘Sexual Health and Wellness’ section objectionable, the Telangana State government has asked Internet providers to block the e-retail portal among several others As India continues its march forward with progress as its buzzword, its youngest state, Telangana, has found itself in the midst of a debate. The state government has asked various Internet…
This is an interesting development – Maharashtra Government has announced that they plan to use Microsoft’s Azure Cloud to store citizen data under Digital locker scheme. This is probably the first time that citizen’s private data will be stored on third party Cloud servers. Till date, state as well as central Government used their own…
The US has alleged China of undermining an open internet and expressed concern over the increasing curbs put on American companies in the Communist nation.
“We believe that nation-states have responsibilities in cyberspace, just as they do elsewhere, to abide by certain standards of behaviour,” three top officials of the Obama administration wrote in an op-ed in The Politico.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern over the frequent misuse of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which makes posting of “offensive” messages on social media a crime punishable with a three-year jail term. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Rohinton Fali Nariman said the term ‘offensive’ is “vague” and highly “subjective”,…
President Barack Obama has proposed US $14 billion for the fiscal 2016 to boost cyber security across the US. Obama has sent his budget to the US Congress on February 2, 2015. Seeing the increase in current cyber threats that are targeting the private sector, critical infrastructure, and the Federal Government, the proposal is designed;…
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company and SRC Cyber, LLC, a company specializing in cyber security products and services, today announced a global alliance. The two companies will jointly develop IT security products and provide consulting services that will serve organizations across the global energy and utilities…
In a bid to bolster the cyber security defence of the country, the US President Barack Obama has proposed a budget seeking $14 billion for the fiscal year 2016. The budget was released on Monday and calls for deployment of more intrusion detection and prevention capabilities, greater sharing of data with the private sector and…